Fact Into Fiction - Documentary Realism in the Contemporary Novel

Klappentext The contemporary novel leads a precarious life between conventional realism, nonfiction 'fiction, ' metafiction and fabulation. In this study an attempt is made to cut across these categories on the basis of the narrative device of 'documentary realism.' It is suggested that a distinctiveelement in contemporary fiction is the deliberate reliance on the documentary element, and the study looks at the way in which selected works by nine contemporary English-language novelists combine more of less clearly signalled documentary material with the imagined universes of fictional texts.

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• Authors: Alvaro Cencini, Lars O Sauerberg, Lars O Cencini Sauerberg, Lars O. Sauerberg, Lars Ole Sauerberg, Lars Ole Cencini Sauerberg
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1991
• EAN: 9781349213016
• ISBN: 978-1-349-21301-6
• No. of pages: 227
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies